Tesla Owners Film Themselves Sleeping and Hacking FSD
It turns out millions in hardware and sophisticated cabin cameras can be defeated by sheer laziness and a twenty-dollar bill. While Tesla insists drivers must stay focused, the internet is turning highway autonomy into a comedy sketch.
Social media feeds are flooded with clips of drivers turning moving electric vehicles into mobile lounges. Videos show motorists sleeping soundly, eating pizza, streaming TV shows on center displays, and playing video games with handheld controllers while their cars cruise down public highways. One driver even flaunted typing on a portable keyboard from behind the wheel of a Tesla Cybertruck.
To keep hands off the wheel without triggering safety shutoffs, drivers are actively tricking onboard monitoring hardware. Built-in cabin cameras and steering wheel torque sensors normally issue a week-long software suspension if attention lapses, but motorists bypass them with steering wheel counterweights, hacked video streaming apps, and a literal $20 bill taped over the camera lens so the system assumes Andrew Jackson is driving.
The company insists its feature is strictly supervised autonomy, though earlier promotional materials from Tesla famously showed someone brewing an espresso without touching the wheel. The mixed messaging is proving costly: the automaker is facing up to $14.5 billion in pending lawsuits, already lost a $243 million judgment over a fatal crash, and is now under a NHTSA federal investigation that could trigger a recall of 3.2 million vehicles.
The line between cutting-edge convenience and catastrophic liability is rapidly dissolving into viral clout, leaving regulators to clean up the fallout before the next viral stunt turns lethal.
Source: Electrek
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